Latin America and the Dracula problem

The Employment Problem in Latin America: Perceptions and Stylized Facts

1 The authors gratefully acknowledge the comments of Ricardo Hausmann, Carmen Pagés and Miguel Székely , and the valuable assistance of Mauricio Olivera in furnishing the labor statistics.

The Employment Problem in Latin America: Perceptions and Stylized Facts.PDF

1 The authors gratefully acknowledge the comments of Ricardo Hausmann, Carmen Pagés and Miguel Székely , and the valuable assistance of Mauricio Olivera in furnishing the labor statistics.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Overall HIV Trends The HIV epidemic in Latin America is stable, and the adult HIV prevalence, at 0.4 percent, has remained unchanged between 2001 and 2010. The epidemic in the Caribbean has slowed significantly since the mid-1990s. The adult HIV prevalence in the Caribbean declined from 1.0 in 2001 to 0.9 in 2010. In 2010, about 76,000 people in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries d...

Latin America and the Caribbean

Ethnobotany and biodiversity conservation-holistic approaches from Eastern Africa and Latin America

Scientists widely agree that species extinction has heavily accelerated in the last decades. A grave problem for the conservation of diversity is the still very fragmentary knowledge of the ecology of most species. Attempts of sustainable management and conservation must integrate local communities and their traditional knowledge. Management decisions need to include the high importance of natu...